AB 617

  • Wisconsin Assembly Bill
  • 2025-2026 Regular Session
  • Introduced in Assembly Nov 04, 2025
  • Passed Assembly Nov 19, 2025
  • Senate
  • Governor

Relating to: applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Votes


Actions


Nov 20, 2025

Senate

Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

Senate

Received from Assembly

Nov 19, 2025

Assembly

Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snodgrass

Assembly

Rules suspended

Assembly

Ordered to a third reading

Assembly

Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

Assembly

Read a third time and passed, Ayes 53, Noes 44

Assembly

Read a second time

Assembly

Ordered immediately messaged

Assembly

Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 53, Noes 44

Nov 18, 2025

Assembly

Fiscal estimate received

Nov 13, 2025

Assembly

Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules

Nov 12, 2025

Assembly

Referred to committee on Rules

Assembly

Executive action taken

Assembly

LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2)

Assembly

Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 4, Noes 2

Assembly

Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 5, Noes 2

Nov 11, 2025

Assembly

Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

Assembly

Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

Assembly

Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Krug

Nov 06, 2025

Assembly

Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

Assembly

Public hearing held

Nov 05, 2025

Assembly

LRB correction

Nov 04, 2025

Assembly

Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

Assembly

Introduced by Representatives Krug, Snyder, O'Connor and Knodl; cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara

Bill Text

Bill Text Versions Format
Bill Text PDF HTML
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 PDF HTML

Related Documents

Document Format
2025 Senate Bill 624 HTML
Wisconsin Ethics Commission information HTML
LC Bill Hearing Materials HTML
AB617 ROCP for Committee on Campaigns and Elections On 11/12/2025 HTML
AB617: Fiscal Estimate From ELEC
LC Amendment Memo
Amendment Histories HTML

Sources

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